Wichita eagle., 1887-09-20
LAST saturdays DRY HAUL.

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The political party whose head is con-
spicuous only for two acts in his life,
namely, the vetoing Of pensions for patriots
of a war In which he was represented by
hired substitute and the surrender
ing of flags In whose capture he had no
hand. has its followers in Sedgwick county,
These held convention last Saturday,
the queer doings and odd results of which
were fully reported in these columns Sun
day morning. Disconnected Republicans
who vainly imagined that some consolation
mi ght possibly come out Of free inter
hange of opinions of that old mossback
CT ovid first swore, then laughed. OF the
personel of the ticket 1t Is unnecessary to
say either good or bad. 1t speaks for
Itself. But the wsy in which 1t was done,
and then that platform, denouncing
the blunders of the last Legislature In
one breath and endorsing Cleveland
in the next. Whatever may be thought of
the incongruity of such political screed,
of either of Its open protestations or of the
Interior sentiments which so undisguisedly
run between the lines, no voter, be he Dem
ocrat or Republican, can fail to appreciate
its appropriateness. Its boasts and threats
are those of warrior who has not only
failed to enlist but with no draft In sight.
There is nothing to be gained by resolving
Mess there be something to resolve about.
Undoubtedly In the estimation Of the
EAGLE the last legislature was largely In
flu enced by coterie of whippers-in for
ringsters whose ultra tenets have never
been adopted by the Republican party and
which never will, but the trouble came OF
weak representatives. The Republican
d arty never, for instance, in any
manner endorsed female suffrage,
vet the last legislature
u nder the whip and spur-not even OF
party leader, much less Republicans, but
of lot of non resident females, backed
by this sort of tune, put through such an
act. But the officers to be elected this fall
can in no way remedy or even effect the
&C S of the last legislature. Next fall Is
the time to take action touching the work
of the last legislature, and next fall is the
time for majority of the people to either
endorse or repudiate the work of the last
legislature, in the election of senators and
representatives. The Democratic party as
a rule depend upon safety In blunders
rather than upon any defined policy. But
If the Democrats of Sedgwick county
mean by their resolutions that their nomi-
uees. If elected, will resist or fail to enforce
obnoxious laws we say to them that In such
an event their officers would not only be
compelled to violate their most solemn oaths
but that without question they would
smell those redolent proceedings known as
the ''quo warranto."
No, these Democratic resolutions ex-
cepting the one endorsing Grover Cleve-
land, are all SO much hog wash gotten up
with the sole purpose to catching the
votes of such Republicans as repudiate and
despise some of the acts of the last legis'
lature, and gotten up on the proposition
that the average Republican would be as
easily misled as the average Democrat.
Asto the enforcement of law. the Re-
publican party is in favor of enforcing
every law. As one of its great party lead
ers tritely observed the way to get rid of
an obnoxious law is to vigorously enforce
it. Republicans will not vote for nor sus-
tain any party,-much less the old Demo
cratic party, which knows no law except
that of the necessity for Office, which
openly arrays itself against the enforce
ment of law; and whose big words were
not spoken in any expectation that those
officers would dare refuse or fail to enforce
law, but which was done solely to catch
the votes of those Republicans who are not
satisfied with two or three acts of the last
legislature.
While the EAGLE Is just where it has
always been touching the metropolitan po-
lice act and that of female suffrage, and
while we expect to and will aid Republi-
cans in making the crooked straight and to
help warm the jackets OF political syco-
plants and hired scalpers when the time
comes, we are not going to bolster up such
a crowd of forlorn hopes nor going to join
fbo Do,nDoratin Marty tn do that work